Migdal Haemek, Israel, and Haifa, Israel, Dec. 12, 2019: TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, today announced the development of a technological platform that utilises memristor devices featuring analog memory storage and computing capabilities.
The platform is based on TowerJazz’s commercial patented Y-Flash NVM on its 0.18um CMOS technology. The latter enables the development of ultra-low power artificial intelligence (AI) cores suitable for the Internet of Things (IoT) Edge devices and sensors such as fingerprint sensors, face and audio recognition applications among others. TowerJazz said in a press release that compared with existing digitally based solutions, this solution enables several orders of magnitude lower power consumption and is very cost effective due to the ability to implement it in less advanced technology nodes.
The extensive research and development was co-led by teams from both TowerJazz and the Technion. The complete research paper was published in the upcoming edition of Nature Electronics, and is the first Nature Electronics’ publication of a research project conducted solely in Israel.
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